Egypt suffers from the problem of low production of fish from consumption, despite Egypt owning vast areas of marine and lake fishing, amounting to about 13.4 million acres of water, which led to the insufficient strategic stock of fish, which led to the problem of Egyptian food security. The main objective of the research was to study the production, consumption and food security of Egyptian fish. In achieving its objectives, the research relied on the use of the descriptive analysis method, such as percentages, arithmetic and engineering averages, and the quantitative analysis method represented in estimating the economic indicators for estimating the strategic stock and food security coefficient for fish, as well as linear regression in both its simple and multiple sides to estimate the equations of the general temporal trend of the study variables as well as to estimate the most important factors responsible for the food gap of fish. To achieve search objectives, the research depends on the use of descriptive statistical methods and economic indicators for estimating the strategic stock and the food security factor for fish. By estimating the growth rate of fish production and consumption, the fish food gap, the average per capita consumption, the self-sufficiency ratio, and the quantity of imports, it was found that the annual growth rate for each of them took a general increasing trend during the study period, where the annual growth rate is estimated at 5.4%, 5%, 3.2%, 2.8%, 0.5%, and 3.9% for each of them, respectively, during the study period (2001-2018), and this indicates that fish food security in Egypt depends on both production and imports. It was also found that the surplus in fish amounted to about 0.1 thousand tons on average during the study period, and this surplus is very small and does not suffice for one day’s consumption. It is also clear that the fish food security coefficient amounted to about 0.0001 on average during the period (2001-2018), and this indicates a decrease in the rate of fish food security. It turns out that the available fish for consumption depends mainly on the local production of fish, which represents about 84.39% of the available for consumption, and on the imports of fish, which represent about 15.61% of the average total available for consumption of fish in Egypt, indicating that fish food security is achieved from the continued flow of both domestic production and imports of fish. Therefore, the state must pay attention to increasing investments in local fish production and expanding the establishment of various fisheries projects. It was found from the research that the amount of fish gap as a dependent variable is affected by both the local production of fish and the average individual annual consumption of fish as independent variables. A change of 0.31% in the amount of that gap in the opposite direction, and a change in the average per capita consumption of fish by 1% lead to a change of 55.2% in the amount of that gap in the same direction. The research showed that the value of the fish food security coefficient is close to zero, and this indicates a low rate of fish food security. Therefore, the state and the private sector must be important to increasing fish production from its various sources, and thus increase the surplus, which leads to an increase in the food security coefficient of fish.
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